Zen at Bordeaux

Zen at Bordeaux offers serviced apartments in the Lafayette Square historic district, and it sits somewhere between a hotel and a rented flat – which suits a visitor staying more than a night or two.

The accommodation is apartment-style rather than hotel rooms, with a rooftop among the shared amenities, in a building in one of the best preserved nineteenth-century neighbourhoods in St. Louis. Guests get free parking, free internet, a washing machine, and step-free access; pets are accepted, which is not easy to find in this part of the city.

The position puts a good deal within reach. The Anheuser-Busch brewery is about a mile and a half away, the Gateway Arch grounds a little under two miles, and the City Museum and the Fox Theatre are both an easy trip. Cherokee Antique Row lies a short drive south.

For anyone spending several days working through the antique shops and the rest of south St. Louis, an apartment with a kitchen and a washing machine is a more sensible base than a hotel room, and this is one of the few places in the historic district offering it.